Real question. I would like to know what drives you to hate Apple? (In terms of privacy of course because in terms of price it’s another story).

  • jaschen@lemm.ee
    301·
    6 months ago

    Except a 12 year old Mac isn’t supported by Apple anymore and will likely be riddled with vulnerabilities. You could just load Linux on it since it’s probably an Intel based chipset.

    • audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      31·
      6 months ago

      It depends on the chipset. The big changes in chipset have been the big barriers for Mac upgradability. My father ran a 10 year old MacBook that was still running the latest MacOS until he found that his 4GB of RAM wasn’t going to be enough and bought a new one (without talking to me first). I had a PPC MacBook that ran on the latest MacOS for about 6 years after Apple switched to Intel.

      • subtext@lemmy.world
        11·
        6 months ago

        Also the hardware support is not great, for example the webcam. I installed Linux on my old MBP but it was a hassle to get the webcam working involving some dubious command line entries with sudo

    • bushvin@lemmy.world
      89·
      6 months ago

      As long as the OS was supported, updates were available.

      But yes, I loaded a nice Fedora on it… 😉